This is my favorite Joy Division song. The lyrics are amazing, Ian singing about the pain of his marriage breaking up. Like Bob Dylan, Ian Curtis is another singer I like to imitate. On this song, he sings just behind the beat with a loose kind of sleepy delivery, like I am really tired of trying to figure out what went wrong with us, but I can't help thinking about it.
Musically, I love that catchy hook keyboard/bass line. And the way the keyboard cheerily soars up and down during the verses. it reminds me of a dog wagging its tail to go outside. Like, love will tear us apart? Oh boy! Let's go have some fun! Poor Ian, he's on the left in the photo...he needed a dog or a cat...man he must have really been suffering. This year, July 15, he would have turned 60.
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